John 5:16

And on account of this the Jews continued to persecute Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

In Context

15And the man departed, and said to the Jews, that Jesus is the one having made him whole.

17And He responded to them, My Father worketh until now, and I work.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:13Then He says to the man, Reach forth thy hand. And he reached it forth and it was restored.

Luke 6:11And they were filled with rage; and they were talking one to another what they might do to Jesus.

John 7:19Did not Moses give you the law? and no one of you does the law. Why do you seek to kill me?

John 10:39They sought again to take Him: and He passed out of their hand.

Acts 9:4and falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord?

Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17

The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →

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